My name is Maryann Kirby. Hi!And I am going today to say that yes, fat is OK. There is nothing wrong with being fat. It's totally OK, I promise. I read Meme's website for a while. It's not the most fun thing ever. I mean body autonomy is an incredi...
The comment I wanna make is why focus on, why does medicine focus on weight, and not focus on blood pressure, cholesterol, some of the things that are correlated with weight over a lifetime. And I think its really important that we move away from a t...
Ok, so the argument about me or the obese people costing more with the insurance, and the healthcare costs. I understand that the physical and medical consequence of weight cycling is very severe. And it adds these costs, and I also, it's my understa...
Information is good, and information in context is very good. The calories, I'm a big fan of calories post on menu board, but most people think they are supposed to eat 2000 calories because nutritional labels are always based on 2000 calories a diet...
When I stopped dieting, my weight stabilized. You know I have permanently screwed up my metabolism because I dieted from the age 7 to the age 27. You know when you put pre-pubescent children on diet, we dont really know what that does to them. I mean...
Yes, so there's been a lot of science talk going on, some of which I'm very familiar with, the study that you quote from University of Pittsburgh I'm not familiar with. But I would take issue with your comment about the studies all being funded by th...
I happen to note that one of my colleagues is here, um, Dr. Richard Bether talking about stacking the deck, um, he is a pediatrician by training, he is a former acting head of the CDC, and also an epidemiologist. I would like you to weigh in on the d...
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Let's move this discussion back where it was, at the top of the show which was about the cost and burdens to society, we talked about the fact except its movement. And people say at what point does your right to be fat impinge on my airline seat, sho...
I just want to expose my biases because as a journalist I think there is always on the one hand on the other hand. You know, I've spent my entire life gaining and losing the same 10 pounds and being fully self-loathing for that. So I understand that'...
We're here at the Great Hall at the Cooper Union which, as you may know, is an esteemed college in lower Manhattan. And we're here to debate the F word. It is a 3-letter word that's thrown around often like a four-letter word. We're talking F-A-T fat...
-Personally, I think that, the meaning of marriage has changed. I think that marriage was one thing of we had to do because we were dependent on a man's take care of us. Then there was an expectancy thing, I graduated school, I gotta get married. And...
I think that what black me a looking forward is different kind of successful. Lot of times, you may think the successful means how much money you make, or that you have a nice job, that you CEO in this company, but black me a looking for a woman a su...
Do men get married and do they marry the next person they meet after they finally go wow, I forgot to get married Theyve been with somebody who is been wonderful for years and years and years that could be their soul mate and they just weren't ready....
A lot of times, we need men who are our own, that their love are our own, and whoever see this, you know,who fed up bill, and we find that,uh, they don't want somebody at our age, they're going for younger women or they're not own for a black women,...